MIA

"Health and safety law says the police service, like all emergency services, should look at the risk involved and if there's a reasonable risk and they've put all the safety precautions in place can they then take it.

"That seems to be a contradiction and members of the public aren't governed by the same law.

Put all safety precautions in place AS FAR AS IS REASONABLY PRACTICABLE he forgot to add

Also, members of the public are governed by the same law. It says so quite clearly in the H&S at W act.

LE

Gee- willickers. Another plod with an excuse why they can't do their job. Well, well, who'd ha' thunk it?

Not as if the law and order problems are even partially the fault of poor prioritisation by senior policemen, or anything?

Once during a fever I remembered that when a European is dying, there is usually some sort of ceremony in which he asks the pardon of others and pardons them. I have a great many enemies, and I thought, what should my answer be if some modernized persons should ask me my views on this? After considering it, I decided: Let them go on hating me. I shall not forgive a single one of them.

LE

"Health and safety law says the police service, like all emergency services, should look at the risk involved and if there's a reasonable risk and they've put all the safety precautions in place can they then take it.

"That seems to be a contradiction and members of the public aren't governed by the same law.

Put all safety precautions in place AS FAR AS IS REASONABLY PRACTICABLE he forgot to add

Also, members of the public are governed by the same law. It says so quite clearly in the H&S at W act.